Redundant vs. Tautology

Redundantadjective

Superfluous; exceeding what is necessary.

Redundantadjective

(of words, writing, etc) Repetitive or needlessly wordy.

Redundantadjective

Dismissed from employment because no longer needed.

Redundantadjective

Duplicating or able to duplicate the function of another component of a system, providing backup in the event the other component fails.

Redundantadjective

Exceeding what is natural or necessary; superabundant; exuberant; as, a redundant quantity of bile or food.

Redundantadjective

Using more worrds or images than are necessary or useful; pleonastic.

Redundantadjective

more than is needed, desired, or required;

Redundantadjective

use of more words than required to express an idea;

Redundantadjective

repetition of same sense in different words;

Redundantadjective

not or no longer needed or useful; superfluous

Redundantadjective

no longer in employment because there is no more work available

Redundantadjective

(of words or data) able to be omitted without loss of meaning or function

Redundantadjective

(of a component) not strictly necessary to functioning but included in case of failure in another component

Tautologynoun

(uncountable) Redundant use of words, a pleonasm, an unnecessary and tedious repetition.

Tautologynoun

(countable) An expression that features tautology.

Tautologynoun

In propositional logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its propositional variables. In first-order logic: a statement that is true for all truth values of its Boolean atoms.

Tautologynoun

A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itself, as in the following lines: -The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,And heavily in clouds brings on the day. Addison.

Tautologynoun

(logic) a statement that is necessarily true;

Tautologynoun

useless repetition;

Tautologynoun

the saying of the same thing twice over in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g. they arrived one after the other in succession).

Tautologynoun

a phrase or expression in which the same thing is said twice in different words.

Tautologynoun

a statement that is true by necessity or by virtue of its logical form.